5 Written Questions

1. Large, Powerful weapons such as cannons and mortars.
2. The art of military command as to an overall plan of war. How to deploy troops and where to deploy troops are components of strategic planning
3. Civil War term for an underwater mine that exploded. Used on rivers to defend against enemy ships
4. The closing off, using naval forces, of a city or other area to traffic communication.
5. Cloth sack used by soldiers to carry rations of food.

5 Matching Questions

1. Contraband
2. Cartridge Box
3. Rifled Musket
4. Envelopment
5. Turning Movement

1. a A military tactic. Sending troops around an enemy's flank(side) to attack his line of communications in the rear of his battle line.
2. b An attack against the flanks of an enemy's army, in hopes of eventually encircling it.
3. c The standard infantry weapon used in the war. Usually .58 or .577 caliber, the "rifle" fired a minnie ball through a spiral grooved barrel, spinning the bullet for more velocity and accuracy.
4. d Goods illegally traded during wartime. Slaves were sometimes called contraband during the war.
5. e A leather box in which the soldier carried his rounds or bullets.

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. Foot soldiers marching and fighting together. The vast majority of Civil War soldiers were infantry.
   1. Infantry
   2. Cavalry
   3. Battery
   4. Dysentery
2. Soldiers mounted on horseback fighting as a unit.
   1. Cavalry
   2. Casualty
   3. Battery
   4. Infantry
3. Term for soldiers who fought for the Union.
   1. Yank or the Blue, Federals or Billy Yank
   2. Draft or Conscription
   3. Contraband
   4. Confederacy or CSA
4. The search for food by soldiers often at the expense of farmers in a battle.
   1. Forage
   2. Rank
   3. Blockade
   4. Zouave
5. To leave one's military post, or run away from battle, often punishable by death.
   1. Rations
   2. Desertion
   3. Dysentery
   4. Drill

5 True/False Questions

1. Battery → Large scale combat between two armed forced (skirmishes and engagements are smaller scaled and briefer).

   True        False

2. Draft or Conscription → The formal release of slaves from bondage, as it happened in January 1863.

   True        False

3. Assassination → The formal release of slaves from bondage, as it happened in January 1863.

   True        False

4. Salt Pork → Dry good salesman who traveled with the Northern armies. Considered necessary for the provision of extra items for soldiers, sutlers often cheated and overcharged military costumers.

   True        False

5. Greenback → Cloth sack used by soldiers to carry rations of food.

   True        False